Let be a vector space over any field .
A collection of vectors is called dependent if there exist real numbers such that and at least one of the 's is nonzero. Consequently, a collection of vectors is called independent if it is not dependent.
Note that may be thought of as a vector space over the field of rational numbers. With this vector space structure on , is the set dependent or independent? What about the set
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Since the external composition is defined on the field of rational numbers......we can say that there exist no rational triplet of scalors (c1,c2,c3) except (0,0,0) such that any linear combination of the elements of both the sets would be equal to 0(null element of R) . Note the answer would have been diffferent if the field was of real numbers(or even the irrational numbers)....then the first set would have been linearly dependent as we could have found such a triplet in which atleast one of the ci's is non zero.